BRAWN BELOW THE HILL
Batching is not a bad business if you have
a strong back and a weak mind. It means
mucking out an accumulation of dirt over a
period of a week or two weeks. It means
cooking a palatable meal with beans after a
day at scbool. It...

According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....

a low ebb and could not reach the town. The settlers had fully decided to abandon the place, when President Young came there on a speaking tour and promised the people that if they would remain where they were, the time would come when there would...

Due to shortage of water in the early days, there was little hay raised by the Minersville settlers. To supple-ment the small supply, the ranchers, farmers and stock-men would make regular trips to the Yellow Banks, 20 miles north of Minersville,...

floors. The furniture consisted of rock or adobe fire-places, roughly constructed tables and benches. Bed-steads were considered luxuries and were home-made. The door and window casings were chopped from cottonwood which grew along the creek....

was brought into town in tanks by the railroad and delivered to the families at 5c per bucket, and placed in barrels in the home, by Henry Osborne, water man. When a storm was brewing one could hear the clang of tubs and buckets being put under the...

The third car in Milford was a Stanley Steamer roadster, painted white. It, too, was used on the mail route and was bought by Bill Martin.
One time when Bill Richards was driving this car on the trip, loaded with mail and passengers, it caught fire...

Wed. Jan. 9, 1901: Ther. Pleasant., Wea. Snow, Ptly. Cloudy, I found my horse about noon near the lower pasture gate. Worked this afternoon on the pipe line covering it deeper with dirt. about one inch of snow fell last night. 4) Thursday 10:...

Sun. Jan. 22, 1905: Ther. Cold Wea. misty & Cloudy, Walked north two and one half and one half mile east and staid with Mr. J.F. Williams, one half mile west of the Emmett s. house. The people of this house don’t seem to care if the dirt is an inch...